Quoting from Time magazine, January 18, 1993, “As astronomers struggle to illuminate the nature of dark matter, a new report hints that as much as 97% of the universe could be made of the mystery stuff.” And so continues man’s feeble attempt to understand the creation of the universe by the all powerful God, the Creator.
When Charles Alcock peers up at the nighttime sky, he wonders not at the luminous stars but at the blackness that enfolds them. The Milky Way, Alcock knows, is like a sprinkling of bright sequins on an invisible cloak spread across the vastness of space. This cloak is woven out of mysterious stuff called dark matter because it emits no discernible light. A sort of shadow with substance, dark matter dominates the universe, accounting for more than 90% of its total mass. Yet scientists, struggling to interpret just a few sparse clues, know virtually nothing about it. The dark matter could be made up of giant planets, failed stars, black holes, clouds of unknown particles, or, even so far as the laws of physics are concerned, bowling balls. “After all this time and all this effort,” sighs Alcock, head of Astrophysics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “we still don’t know what most of the universe is made of.”
Using impressive names like Neutrinos, WIMPS, MACHOS, Black Holes and Bowling Balls, astronomers struggle in a feeble effort to understand and explain, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). While I do not believe mankind is wrong for trying to understand what God has made for us, this points out so strongly again that “Tho’ men may search, they cannot find, for God alone does understand” (Our God, He Is Alive by Allen W. Dicus).
